Analysis of Befitting of Profile
I’m branded by many as that raisin-in-
the-sun; that Brotha whose tresses are
like sheep’s wool; feet like burning
bronze; w/ fire-flamed eyes. My
pigmentation—, the color of melanin
rind; that black knight, who, under a
pale moon shines. But more than that,
I’m an Afrikaan whose forbearers hail
from West Africa—; along the Ivory
Coast. A descendant of Israelites; on
ships, my human vessel once splayed—,
stretch, widened, twisted, bent—, and
on auction blocks displayed.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011011100 01111101 1111110 110010111 0100101100 11111100 1111111 111111 11100010100 100101101 11101011 1101010 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 497 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 367 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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